New (Unofficial) Puppy Wiki
Posted: Sat 08 May 2010, 10:27
Well, I'm working on a new Puppy wiki, similar to the Arch wiki, lots of guide for pretty much anything.
It's kinda initial, still, but after the current content is ready I'm sure it will be easy to expand it. It looks great already.
Articles for things like ALSA, CUPS and popular applications can be added as soon as the basic structure is ready. Currently, the whole wiki is almost ready, but the Woof section and some minor articles (mainly definitions) need to be written.
Regarding WhoDo's question, whether this wiki will be merged with the official one, currently, it will be a separate project. The official wiki is just one big mess and (forgive me for that) I think it sucks. The main goal of the new one is to be organized and easy to understand, that's why it's written this way, with big fonts. Also, it's alot lighter than the official wiki, and that's good. It uses only JPG images for people with slow internet connections. It's supposed to be a wiki that covers all aspects of Puppy, sort of a Puppy equivalent of the Arch and Gentoo wikis.
So, let's get to the point. I'm currently trying to write an article about hardware, which explains about different kinds of peripherals, including hard drives, processors, whatever. I need photos of those pieces of hardware, including old hardware that I don't own, such as true SCSI drives and old laptops.
Another thing I need is pictures of happy Puppy users that hug their Puppy computers, smile and raise their thumbs or something. I want to make a "Puppy success stories" page with people, their location, age, description of old hardware they recycled with Puppy, Puppy version used, some quote, a picture and so on. That thing will be added to the "About Puppy" page. That's a really great addition to that page, should convince many people how useful Puppy is.
Besides, another thing that this wiki needs is more writers. If you can write with proper grammer in simple English and prove that you're not going to ruin the whole thing, you're in. This should be a community effort.
So ... if you can help here, thank you very much.
It's kinda initial, still, but after the current content is ready I'm sure it will be easy to expand it. It looks great already.
Articles for things like ALSA, CUPS and popular applications can be added as soon as the basic structure is ready. Currently, the whole wiki is almost ready, but the Woof section and some minor articles (mainly definitions) need to be written.
Regarding WhoDo's question, whether this wiki will be merged with the official one, currently, it will be a separate project. The official wiki is just one big mess and (forgive me for that) I think it sucks. The main goal of the new one is to be organized and easy to understand, that's why it's written this way, with big fonts. Also, it's alot lighter than the official wiki, and that's good. It uses only JPG images for people with slow internet connections. It's supposed to be a wiki that covers all aspects of Puppy, sort of a Puppy equivalent of the Arch and Gentoo wikis.
So, let's get to the point. I'm currently trying to write an article about hardware, which explains about different kinds of peripherals, including hard drives, processors, whatever. I need photos of those pieces of hardware, including old hardware that I don't own, such as true SCSI drives and old laptops.
Another thing I need is pictures of happy Puppy users that hug their Puppy computers, smile and raise their thumbs or something. I want to make a "Puppy success stories" page with people, their location, age, description of old hardware they recycled with Puppy, Puppy version used, some quote, a picture and so on. That thing will be added to the "About Puppy" page. That's a really great addition to that page, should convince many people how useful Puppy is.
Besides, another thing that this wiki needs is more writers. If you can write with proper grammer in simple English and prove that you're not going to ruin the whole thing, you're in. This should be a community effort.
So ... if you can help here, thank you very much.